Apostle Islanders: The People and Culture

Apostle Islanders: The People and Culture

Bob Nelson spent his entire childhood summer days on Rocky Island as the third-generation son of a Norwegian fishing family. His images – both narrative and photography – evoke that intimate connection with the Apostle Islands throughout a lifetime on the big lake. Today the Islands have a sense of unexplored wilderness, but once the archipelago was dotted with fish camps, a few farms, quarries and other centers of human activity.